Building construction.



v P. DUEHN.

v BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

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Patented Feb. 26, w13.

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'Specicatcn of Letters Patent.

Lamela.

Appli-cation filed December 7', 1916. f

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, PETER DoERN, a citi# zen ofthe United States, residing at New Rochelle, l/Vestchester county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Building Constructions, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements in building constructions in which the room, chamber or compartment is entirely or substantially surrounded or inclosed by an air cell or envelop, and the same has for its object to provide a building in which the walls, ceilings and floors of the room or compartments therein are provided with intercommunicating air chambers.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a building construction having horizontal air chambers formed within the licoring or ceiling members and vertical air chambers formed' withinthe wall members, and means within the wall members at the junction of the flooring orceiling members therewith for establishing communication between the horizontal and vertical air chambers.

A further obj ect of the invention is to provide a building construction having hori- Zontal air chambers formed within the floor.- ing or ceiling members and vertical air chambers formed within the wall members,

and blocks within the wall members at the junction of the flooring or ceiling members therewith for establishing communication between the horizontal and vertical air chambers. i

A further object of the invention is to provide `a building construction having horizontal air chambers formed within the flooring or ceiling members and vertical air chambers formed within the wall members, and channeled blocks within thewall mem bers at the junction of the flooring or ceiling members therewith for establishing communication between the horizontal andv vertical air chambers.

Other objects will in part be obvious, andv in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To 4the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

ln the accompanying drawings showing Patentes ieee. as, isis.

Serial No. 135,593.

several illustrative embodiments of the invention i Figure 1 is a perspective view of a buildn ing vconstruction embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail vertical sectional view thereof;

F ig. 3 is aperspective view of one of the blocks or elements serving to establish communication between the vertical andv hori- Zontal air chambers;

lTig.` 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a modified construction, and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing another modified construction.

Referring to the drawings the vertical wall members comprise a plurality of sections formed of hollow blocks 10 laid in courses and having their vertically-disposed openings 1l registering with one another to. form continuous air chambers. The sections are spaced from one another and the intervening spaces are filled with concrete 12 or other suitable plastic material. As shown the wall consists of three hollow block sections but it will, of course, be understood that this number may be varied without de parting from the spirit of the invention. The iiooring or ceiling members, which are supported by the wall members comprise a plurality of rows of hollow blocks 13 having horizontally disposed openings 14, the blocks 1350i3 each row being laid end to end so that the openings 14 of the blocks 13 of each row will register with one another to form continuous air chambers. As shown in lig. l the blocks 13 are Il.s`napcd in crosssection and the spaces thus formed between the rows of blocks are filled with concrete or the like 15 within which tierods 16 may be embedded. A. layer of concrete or the like 1'? covers the upper surfaces of the rows of blocks 13 and merges with the concrete 15 between the rows of blocks 13. lf desired strengthening rods 18 may be embedded within the layer of concrete 17.

lf desired the end of the horizontally projecting part of the lfshaped block 19 at the end of each of the rows may be broken away, as shown in Fig. 4, in order to permit the concrete filling 15 to engage the upper surface of the portion of the wall members upon which the flooring or ceiling members are supported.

Upon the upper surface of the layer of concrete 17 are a plurality of rows of hollow tiles 20 which are also laid end to end f proper.

lwith their horizontally-disposed openings 21 oi' the severalrows coincide with the sides of the hollow blocks forming the intermediate section of the wall member. At the junction of the iiooring or ceiling members with the wallmembers blocks 23 having one or more vertical channels 24e are interposed between the courses of the blocks 10 forming the intermediate wall'section. The lateral openings of the channels 2/1 register with the openings formed in the end blocks 13 and the end tiles 20 and the ends of the Y channels register with the openings 11 in 'the blocks 10 of the' courses immediately above and below thev channeled blocks. By means of this construction the horizontally disposed air chambers of the flooring or ceiling members are placed in communication with the vertically-disposed air chambers of the Vintermediate section of the wal) member. lf desired hot or cold air may be circulated throughout the intercommunicating chambers for the purpose of heating or cooling the rooms of the building.

Instead of employing the channeled blocks I 23 two or more superimposed hollow blocks 25 having vertical openings 26 therethrough may be used which' blocks are maintained in spaced relation to one another by suitable spacing members 27 as shown in Fig. 5. 1n thls construction the vertical openings '26 ofthe blocks 25 register with the openings 11 in the blocks 10 of the courses of theintermediate wall section, and the verticalV air chambers are in communication with the horizontal air chambers through the spaces formed between the superimposed spaced blocks 25.

rIhe wall members comprising the hollow blocks 25 spaced from one another by the spacing members 27, shown in Fig. 5, are not claimed in this application as the same are shown and claimed in my co-pending application, Serial No. 123,005, filed September 30, 1916.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a building construction, wall members comprising blocks laid in courses, certain oit said blocks having vertically-disposed openings extending therethrough, certain other o1"I said blocks having vertically-extending channels formed therein and having lateral openings extending throughout the height of the blocks, the verticaily-disposed openings of said first named blocks and the vertically-extending channels 0i said second named blocks being in alinement with one another to form vertical air chambers extending continuously throughout the height of said wall members, and flooring or ceiling members comprising hollow blocks having horizontally-disposed openings registering with one another to -form horizontal air chambers, said horizontal air chambers registering at their ends with the lateral openings of the vertically-extending channels of said second named blocks, whereby communication is established between said horizontal air chambers and said vertical air chambers, substantially as speciiied.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, this 2d day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

PETER DOERN.

Vitnesses Louis B. HAsBRoUcn, CONRAD A. DIETRICH.

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